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The second China-Australia Dialogue Exhibition, (title) "Postcards from China: An Artistic Odyssey", opened at the China Cultural Centre in Sydney on August 28, attracting around 110 attendees from the cultural, artistic media circles of the two countries.

The opening ceremony featured a (wonder) performance of guzheng solo High Mountains and Flowing Water, one of China's ten great ancient (piece), and Eugène Ysaye's Violin Sonata No.2, Op. 27.

Co-organized the centre, the Australian Watercolor Institute and Guangxi Arts University, the exhibition featured 40 works by 10 Chinese and Australian artists that explore themes of cultural integration and exchange.

Wang Shuyu, cultural counselor of the Chinese Consulate General in Sydney, highlighted the unique power of art in crossing borders and (build) friendship between the two countries. "These creations are not (mere) paintings on paper; they're like postcards carrying stories, dreams and hopes between the two nations," she said.

David van Nunen, president of the Australian Watercolor Institute, (stress) the exhibition's role in showcasing the outcomes of a visit to China by Australian artists, lasted from August last year to July this year. "We are devoted to advancing cross-cultural exchanges and look forward to deeper cooperation with China not only (open) up more spaces for artistic creation, but also to build a closer emotional bond between artists from both sides," he said.

Weeks later, it was Adriana's first day back to school — a day she had eagerly looked forward to after weeks of5. To her great surprise, Ricky appeared at the school gate as she6 up with her mom. Several teachers nearby also7 to watch, smiling at the heartwarming scene. This time, he didn't8 any medical supplies. Instead, he held a handful of bright flowers, some small toys as9, and flashed a big, warm smile. A week earlier, Ricky had10 Adriana's mom about her favorite things, just to make her return to school a little more11.

As soon as Adriana saw Ricky, her face12. "Mr. Ricky" she called out13. She let go of her mom's hand and ran toward him, her eyes filled with happiness. She14 her arms around him, and Ricky gently patted (拍) her back, saying, "Welcome back to school, Adriana." In that moment, Adriana could15 how much care Ricky had for her-far more than just the help he'd provided before.

To solve this problem, fishermen put freezers (冰柜) on their boats. They would freeze the caught fish immediately. , but it failed to maintain the freshness that the Thais treasured. The price of frozen fish began to drop.

Then, the fishermen tried another solution. They put fish tanks (鱼缸) on their boats. They would catch fish and place them in the tanks, packed tightly together. The fish would move around a bit, but soon became tired and bored. .

Finally, the fishermen discovered a clever solution. They added a small shark to the tanks. The shark would eat a few fish, but the remaining ones stayed lively and active throughout the journey. , keeping them always on the move. When the fishermen reached the market, the fish were still fresh and full of life.

The customers at the market were very happy with the energetic and lively fish. . The fishermen's new method not only kept the fish fresh but also brought back the excitement of buying fish that were as lively as if they had just been caught. This clever idea helped the fishermen succeed once again.

A. They could see and feel the difference in quality

B. As a result, these fish did not taste fresh, either

C. Many fishermen started to fish in warmer waters instead

D. The presence of the shark created a challenge for the fish

E. This method helped the fish last longer without going bad

F. The fish in the tanks soon escaped and jumped into the sea

G. This forced fishermen to journey further out to sea to catch fish

Researchers analyzed 357 global surveys covering 2.3 million people. Participants ranked themselves on a 10-level "status ladder (地位等级)" comparing their position to society. Results revealed social comparison drives over 70% of money's impact on happiness — far outweighing actual resources. "Money gains power when measured against others," explains lead researcher Dr. Lee.

The researchers also found that the effect of social comparison was stronger in countries, such as Singapore. Resource competition forces constant social evaluation. Yet upward comparisons often backfire. As Mark Twain observed, "Comparison is the death of joy." Having just a little more money than your parents doesn't bring much satisfaction, because nowadays the neighbors are clearly much wealthier.

Critically, economic growth sometimes fails to improve national happiness. Why? The study suggests unequal progress makes many feel left behind despite personal gains. True well-being requires advancing both personally and relatively within society's position ladder. Lawmakers thus must balance wealth creation with fair competition policies.

Despite these impacts, the problem appears overlooked by the tech industry. "If you examine tech companies' sustainability reports, they mention carbon emissions (碳排放) and water use, but completely ignore harmful air pollutants already damaging public health," explains Shaolei Ren, a study author.

The research team recommends that tech companies report air pollution from their electricity use and generators. They also call for proper compensation for communities suffering the worst health effects from this pollution.

Notably, AI-related air pollution harms certain low-income neighborhoods more severely, partly because they often sit closer to power sources. Furthermore, pollution spreads across state boundaries. "Data centers pay local taxes," Ren notes, "but health impacts reach nationwide. Other affected areas receive no compensation." For example, pollution from Virginia data centers spreads into seven neighboring regions.

As tech companies compete to launch new AI services, dangerous air pollutants — especially tiny particles entering lungs — are expected to rise sharply. By 2030, health damage from AI pollution could match that of all vehicles in California.

"AI's growth hugely increases demand for data centers and energy, making it the fastest-growing energy user across all industries," Ren states. Training just one major AI model creates pollution equal to 10,000 car trips between Los Angeles and New York.

"If your relatives have asthma or heart conditions, this pollution may harm them today. This serious health problem cannot wait," Ren warns.

In 2017, Rao won the first place in the Discovery Education 3M Young Scientist Challenge. This brought her wide attention. She decided to use her talents to solve real problems. After learning about unsafe drinking water in Flint, Michigan, she created Tethys. This device tests water for dangerous lead and sends results to a phone. Later, she designed Kindly, an app that uses computer smarts to find hurtful online messages early. She also built Epione, a tool to help doctors spot signs of drug addiction.

Rao is also a writer. Her first book, Baby Brother Wonders, came out in 2015 when she was just ten. In 2020, she published A Young Person's Guide to Science and Technology. That same year, TIME Magazine chose her as the first ever Kid of the Year, featuring her on its cover. She also received other important awards including a place on Forbes Magazine's 30 Under 30 list.

Outside of science, Rao enjoys Indian classical dance, singing and playing the piano. She has shared her ideas at TEDx events and appeared in a Marvel television show. Her story teaches us that young people can make a big difference in the world.

The Great American Beer Festival (October)

This 3-day event in Denver is held at the Colorado Convention Center. It attracts around 50,000 people each year. Over 800 American factories (酿酒厂) offer more than 4,000 kinds of beer, including famous ones like Sierra Nevada and Dogfish Head. Visitors can eat food from local food trucks, such as handmade pretzels and delicious small hamburgers. You can also attend workshops to learn about the beer-making process or meet skilled brewers.

Oktoberfest (啤酒节) Zinzinnati(September)

This is America's biggest Oktoberfest outside Munich, and it takes place along the river in Cincinnati. It draws more than 800,000 people each year. Over 100 sellers offer German food and beer. There's a big 300-foot tent called Zinzinnati Festhalle that can hold more than 1,000 people, and features over 30 shows. Favorite traditions include the World's Largest Chicken Dance, the Running of the Wieners (a race with small dogs), and a mug-holding competition.

The New Orleans Wine & Food Experience (June)

This popular event in Louisiana is held at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center. Each year, roughly 7,500 people come to it. You can try food and drinks from over 250 wineries and 75 local restaurants. They serve both traditional and innovative New Orleans dishes. Special activities include the Royal Street Stroll, where you taste wine in old shops in the French Quarter, and the Grand Tasting, where chefs show how to cook.

Food Network South Beach Wine & Food Festival (February)

This 4-day event in Miami Beach has over 400 sellers, offering things like special cheeses and handmade cocktails, and about 25,000 people attend it. It's held at the convention center, local restaurants, and tents on the beach. Famous chefs like Guy Fieri and Bobby Flay show how to cook and host special dinners. Special activities include Burger Bash hosted by Emeril Lagasse and the Grand Tasting Village with over 50 restaurants and 100 kinds of wine and drinks.

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The blind box phenomenon isn't limited to collectibles. Businesses across sectors can incorporate this trend to increase customer engagement, attract a wider audience, and enhance the shopping experience. Here are a few ideas for how different types of businesses can incorporate blind box concepts.

Create mystery product boxes.

Introduce a line of mystery boxes for your products. For example, a beauty brand could create blind boxes with a mix of skincare or makeup products. Each box could include items of varying values, creating an element of surprise for customers.

Create exclusive (独有的) blind box series that feature one-of-a-kind items or unique packaging, which can increase demand and bring in regular customers. Offering these boxes on a seasonal or limited-time basis also adds an element of urgency, motivating customers to act quickly.

Incorporate blind boxes in loyalty programs.

For businesses with loyalty programs, offering blind boxes as part of a rewards program can drive engagement. This would give them a unique stimulation to continue buying and interacting with your brand.

Adopting the blind box model can help businesses tap into the excitement and mystery that drives this trend, while also providing a fun and memorable experience for customers. By adding elements of exclusivity and variety, brands can boost sales and customer loyalty, turning each purchase into an engaging experience.

A. Consider rarity an artistic focus.

B. Launch limited-edition blind boxes.

C. This trend started in Japan and quickly spread worldwide.

D. And a fashion shop might offer mystery gift packs.

E. Regular customers could exchange points for mystery boxes.

F. There are countless social media groups discussing the blind boxes.

G. It has also become a business model for industries ranging from fashion to beauty.

The Coller Dolittle Challenge financed by Jeremy Coller, a vegan and animal lover, is unashamedly modelled on the Turing test (图灵测试). That 20th-century test promotes efforts to design a machine capable of imitating human conversation, and became a touchstone in the evolution of AI. It also became a focus for concerns about machines tricking, even taking over, humans. The ability to commune with other species is likely to raise similar, unsettling questions as research progresses. If we were able to decode animal chatter, should this knowledge change how we treat them, whether as pets, labour or food? The prize presents a moral challenge and it forces us to reconsider our relationships with other species.

Philosopher Jonathan Birch, also a judge of the Jeremy Coller Centre, stressed that the Challenge is looking beyond the interspecies communication we have with pets, or that a farmer has with a sheepdog. Those relationships involve signalling and behavioural responses, Birch explains, "but that's not telling us how animals communicate with each other... this prize is about understanding it so well that we can start to join the conversation."

While Coller hopes his charity will reshape our attitude to animals, the truth is that even groundbreaking research has largely failed to move the dialon their welfare. Recent work on cephalopod's (头足类动物) intelligence has not stopped plans to farm the creatures. We might one day be able to understand what animals are saying — but there is no guarantee we will listen.

But some worry that so much messaging leads to less communication. For instance, when hanging out with friends, we'd be texting secretively at the same time, pretending to maintain eye contact but mentally somewhere else.

New technologies often upset the way we relate to one another, of course. But such division caused by texting has a strong echo in the arguments we had over telephone a hundred years ago. The small device gave us a new way to contact one another and quickly promote new forms of socializing. Callers arranged regular "visiting" calls, dialing remote family to catch up on news.

Soon, though, social critics thought it would be so easy to talk that we'd never leave each other alone. Others worried that the telephone sped up life, demanding instant reactions. The use of the telephone gave little room for reflection. It produced a craziness in the ordinary concerns of life which didn't make for domestic happiness. "We shall soon be nothing but transparent piles of jelly (果冻) to each other," a London writer moaned in 1897.

However, nowadays the telephone call seems like a throwback to a gentler era. When Jenna Birch, a communication professor at the University of Iowa, started dating a man who insisted on calling her on the phone, she found it warm and delightful. So she doesn't think the shift to texting has degraded our interactions. According to her study, teenagers who text the most are also those who spend the most time face to face with friends. Communication, it seems, brings more communication, and — as she argues — just because talk happens in text doesn't mean it's not meaningful.

Michéle Martin of Carleton University, thinks we're living through a replay of the telephone, where the things that made it valuable — instant communications — are the same that made it annoying. "People believe they are liberated because they can bring the mobile phone everywhere," Martin says. "But at the same time, they are slaves to it."

Norton built his own career in a different field, becoming one of his generation's most respected actors. When Norton first became famous, he concluded that he wasn't interested in ordinary celebrity ambassador work. "I am not interested in being some weak sauce kind of spokesperson," he says. "It's not that I don't believe those things are important, but that held no nourishment for me."

What does nourish Norton is his work with a Kenya-based organization called the Maasai Wilderness Conservation Trust which helps the Maasai people to make a living from their land through innovative means. One project that Norton is particularly proud of channels profits from the sale of carbon offsets (碳补偿) to local Maasai communities who use that money to support health, education, and conservation initiatives.

One challenge that concerns Norton would be familiar to his father and grandfather: raising funds. This led Norton to a realization. "We can't have the conservation movement depend only on donor-funded charity," he says, "It not only can't scale; it's fundamentally unstable."

A new model is needed. Norton and his partners argue that tourist dollars being spent in fragile places ought to remain in-country — or better yet, in-community. Norton and his team have started a company called Conservation Equity that will invest in tourism in critical places and will reinvest its profits locally, instead of paying distant shareholders.

Norton is optimistic about the model's prospects, "I think what we are doing has no previous example to follow. The needs of people are not going to take a lower priority to the spiritual value of nature. If protecting and restoring nature can't produce a stronger and more reliable economy, the effort will fail."

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How often do we get(stick) in traffic jams? How often do we arrive at work or school,(stress) out, tired and angry? For many, the answer is every day. But personal(angry) and stress are nothing(compare) to the real costs socially.

Can a sixth extinction(avoid)? Experts say it is not yet too late if we take action now. We need to take steps to save endangered species, including setting up special areas plants and animals can be protected. We need to change how we work and travel by using cleaner,(natural) sources of energy. If we want to survive, we need to stop(destroy) the planet.

The third mass extinction was known as the "Great Dying", killed 90% to 96% of all species. And the fifth event, which(occur) 66 million years ago, caused the death of the dinosaurs. The reasons for extinctions are varied, including volcanic eruptions, asteroids(hit) the earth from space and global warming. Many scientists say we are entering the sixth mass extinction. This time, human activity will be(blame). Although it is not unusual for species to die naturally, the rate at which this is now happening is cause for concern.

To be at the top in sport, I have to face enormous fears and worries on a day-to-day (base). I am always tired and every workout has a mental intensity that seems too much for most (handle). I have little time to get together with my families. In order to find a swimming pool to train in, I (ruin) a family holiday in France. You may think my lifestyle is (healthy) and my preparations are overdone. However, if you want to be an Olympic champion and reach the winner's platform, you'd better be totally (commit) to your sport. Doing the extra little bit sets us from other competitors. And (get) to the top inspires everyone to strive for greatness.

But something4 inside me refused to give up and I kept trying. While Ms. Barton never smiled, I started noticing little nodes of5. Then came the shock — she asked me to join a ballet dance for our year-end show!

During practice, I tripped, I stumbled, but I kept going. On opening night, as the spotlight hit me during the finale, all my6 melted away. The audience's cheers washed over me like warm sunshine.

Another shock came on the last day of school. When Ms. Barton called my name for the "Ballerina" award, I nearly7 my books. That serious teacher was actually smiling at me. As I received the award, a bit teary-eyed, I smiled back at Ms. Barton and said, "Thank you for challenging me."

Holding the8, I realized something important — my biggest9 had become my proudest moment. In that instant, it hit me. When you10 in life, make it part of your dance.

In the quiet town of Willowbrook, where autumn leaves turned the streets gold, lived a young girl named Lily. At fourteen, she was neither the tallest nor the most athletic girl in her class, but her spirit burned brighter than any campfire under the starry sky. Lily had a dream — a dream to climb the ancient oak tree in her grandmother's garden, a tree so tall that it seemed to touch the heavens. This tree, known as the "Guardian (守护者) of Willowbrook", had stood for centuries. Its branches were a silent witness to countless stories of victory and defeat.

Lily's great interest in the tree began when she was just a little girl. She would sit beneath its large base, staring up at the astonishing heights, imagining resting among the leaves, feeling the wind tell secrets in her ear. But every time she tried to climb, fear would hold her heart fast, and she would draw back, promising herself she'd try again tomorrow.

One cold morning in early October, Lily decided that tomorrow had finally arrived. She determined not to let anything annoy her. Her best friend, Max, a boy with a talent for adventure and a heart as brave as a lion, accompanied her. Max had climbed the Guardian countless times, but he was never tired of watching others overcome their fears.

"Ready?" Max asked, as they stood at the base of the tree.

Lily nodded, her knees shaking slightly. She took a deep breath, reached for the first big branch, and pulled herself up. The tree was rough against her hands, and her muscles hurt with every move. But Lily kept going. She thought only about the next branch and then the next, ignoring the pain in her arms and her racing heart. Halfway up, she felt the treetops waving at her.

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Dear Alex,

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Yours,

Li Hua